Mauá Hires Franklin Templeton Manager

Brazilian hedge fund Mauá Investimentos, has hired Mauro Cunha from Franklin Templeton Asset Management’s Brazil office, to head the fund’s equities team. Cunha will start at Mauá on July 10 as William Trosman, former head of equities at Mauá, takes on a new role developing new businesses for the fund. Earlier this year Lourenço Bastos-Tigre, left Mauá’s fixed income team to join Greenwich-based Tudor Group. He was replaced by Fernando Monteiro who came from Quest Investimentos, another prominent Brazilian hedge fund.